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Danger could be my middle name... But it's John.
Eddie Izzard
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Eddie Izzard
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 7
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When you're coming out, you have to deal with the whole world saying 'Oh! You're an abominable snowman'.
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You're gay, you sell books... you probably shag the books.
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Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War.
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Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
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I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.
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I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I'm out the door. But that's the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.
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When you're more mature, you do start telling the truth, in odd situations. I'm sorry, I've broken a glass here. Is that expensive? I'll pay for it. I'm sorry. And you do that so that people in the room might go, What a strong personality that person has. I like to have sex with people with strong personalities.
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But puberty was... well, before puberty, at school, I didn't tell kids I was a transvestite 'cause I thought they might kill me with sticks, you know?
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They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'
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Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!
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When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people
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For me to put a look together, if it's going to be a boy look or a girl look or whatever, is quite a tricky thing to do. I'm not doing drag because drag is seen in a certain way and my comedy has got zero to do with what I'm wearing. I could wear an elephant suit and say the same thing.
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Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).
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In the UK a lot of people don't like to try. There's a different cultural thing. Here [in USA] if you try and fail, you get up again and start again and keep going. People respect you for it. Even if you keep failing, they respect the tenacity.
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My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.
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I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago! And people were going, No, surely not, no. No one was alive then.
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If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.
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We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.
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